The Coalition Wants To Restore
Constitutional Principles To Public Policy
Uniting Principle: - The
unalienable rights of the people are most likely to be preserved
if the
principles of government are set forth in a written Constitution.
The structure of the American system is set forth in the Constitution of the United States and the only
weaknesses which have appeared are those which were allowed to creep in despite the Constitution.The Coalition Believes Power Vest With the Individual
Uniting Principle: Only limited and carefully defined powers should be
delegated to government, all others being retained by the people."The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to
The Coalition Believes in States Rights.
the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America And to the republic for which it stands...."
The Coalition Believes in A Strong Military
Uniting Principle: A free people will not survive unless they stay strong.
"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace." – George Washington
Uniting Principle: "Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations -- entangling alliances with none."
- Thomas Jefferson, given in his first inaugural address.The Coalition Believes that Decisions
Affecting Lives Should be Made Locally
Uniting Principle: - Strong local self-government is the keystone to preserving human freedom.
"The way to have good and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many,
distributing to every one exactly the functions he is competent [to perform best]. - Thomas JeffersonThe Coalition Believes In Fiscal Responsibility
Uniting Principle: - The burden of debt is as destructive to human freedom as subjugation by conquest."We are bound to defray expenses [of the war] within our own time, and are unauthorized to burden posterity
with them.... We shall all consider ourselves morally bound to pay them ourselves and consequently
within the life [expectancy] of the majority." – Thomas JeffersonThe Coalition Believes in The Power Of The Free Market
Uniting Principle: The highest level of prosperity occurs when there is a
free-market economy and a minimum of government regulations.Prosperity depends upon a climate of wholesome stimulation with four basic freedoms in operation:
- The Freedom to try.
- The Freedom to buy.
- The Freedom to sell.
- The Freedom to fail.
The Coalition Believes in Property Rights
Uniting Principle: - Life and liberty are secure only so long as the rights of property are secure .
John Locke reasoned that God gave the earth and everything in it to the whole human family as a gift. Therefore the land, the sea, the acorns in the forest, the deer feeding in the meadow belong to everyone "in common." However, the moment someone takes the trouble to change something from its original state of nature, that person has added his ingenuity or labor to make that change. Herein lies the secret to the origin of "property rights."
The Coalition Believes In Moral Clarity
Uniting Principle: A free people cannot survive under a republican constitution
unless they remain virtuous and morally strong.
“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious,
they have more need of masters." - Benjamin Franklin
"There is certainly no country in the world where the tie of marriage is more respected than in America, or
where conjugal happiness is more highly or worthily appreciated.” Alexis de Tocqueville
The Coalition Believes in Free and Fair Elections
Uniting Principle: The most promising method of securing a virtuous people is to elect virtuous leaders.
"Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners
are universally corrupt. He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to
promote its virtue, and who ... will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust
who is not a wise and virtuous man." - Samuel Adams
The Coalition Believes in the Just Application of The Law
Uniting Principle: - A free people should be governed by law and not by the whims of men.
"The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created
beings, capable of laws, where there is no law there is no freedom. For liberty is to be free from restraint
and violence of others, which cannot be where there is no law." – John Locke
The Coalition Believes In Educational
Choices and Home Schooling
"They made an early provision by law that every town consisting of so many families should be always furnished with a grammar school. They made it a crime for such a town to be destitute of a grammar schoolmaster for a few months, and subjected it to a heavy penalty. So that the education of all ranks of people was made the care and expense of the public, in a manner that I believe has been unknown to any other people, ancient or modern. The consequences of these establishments we see and feel every day [written in 1765]. A native of America who cannot read and write is as rare ... as a comet or an earthquake.” John Adams
The Coalition Believes Government Should Protect Rights
Uniting Principle: - The proper role of government is to protect equal rights, not provide equal things.
The Founders recognized that the people cannot delegate to their government any power except that which
they have the lawful right to exercise themselves.
The Coalition Believes in the Separation Of Powers
Uniting Principle: A system of checks and balances should be adopted to prevent the
abuse of power by the different branches of government.
"It will not be denied that power is of an encroaching nature and that it ought to be effectually restrained
from passing the limits assigned to it." - James Madison
The Coalition Believes The Government Works For Us
Uniting Principle: - The God-given right to govern is vested in the sovereign authority of the whole people.
"The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of the consent of the people. The streams of national
power ought to flow immediately from that pure, original fountain of all legislative authority." - Alexander Hamilton
"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes ... but when a long train of abuses and usurpations ... evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security." - Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence
